JAIPUR: Farmers in the state are planning to put a spanner in the state government and the Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) plans to start the 47-km Ring Road project on scheduled time without

JAIPUR: The state will get 50% of the total energy generated by the two under-construction units of Rajasthan Atomic Power Project ( RAPP) at Rawatbhata in Kota district.

JODHPUR: Taking a serious note of illegal mining at the prohibited area near the Air Force station in Jaisalmer, a division bench of Rajasthan High Court has directed the chief secretary along with the district collector and superintendent of police, Jaisalmer, to ensure that no mining activity takes place in the area.

Hearing a PIL, the bench comprising Chief Justice Arun Kumar Mishra and Just

JODHPUR: Expressing concern over defforestation ahead of the first Forest Congress

JAIPUR: Shahgarh or Ramgarh? African or Iranian? Several questions dog the ambitious project on re-establishing the cheetah in Rajasthan. The problems seem to only grow with time putting a question mark on the already jinxed project.

JAIPUR: Rajasthan has asked the Centre to take management of the inter-state rivers and canals in its hand to resolve the long-pending water sharing disputes among the states.

JAISALMER: Young people have started looking old due to the increasing fluoride content in water in many villages of Jaisalmer and Barmer districts. This is serious as problem of hunchback and bone related diseases are on rise. Besides, people avoid marrying someone from these villages.

Dozens of families in Balu village of Barmer look old despite being young and many have developed hunchback.

JAIPUR: Tourists will now have a new destination in the Pink City. Laced with promises of a near Sariska or even a Ranthambore-like experience sans the distance and the cost, the state forest department will shortly be inaugurating a new jungle safari at the sprawling Nahargarh Biological Park on the Jaipur-Delhi highway.

JAIPUR: The state has reiterated its demand for a special status from the Centre in view of an impending water crisis.

The water resource minister Mahipal Maderna made the demand to the Union minster for water resources Vincent H Pala at a national water policy (2002) review meeting here on Thursday.

JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, tobacco chewing is on the rise. It has increased by 0.1% as compared to smoking. In the state, around 18.9% of the total population chews tobacco while 18.8% population smokes. The figures were released by the World Health Organization last week.

Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra Singh said, "The number of people chewing tobacco is rising.